Opinion Archives

Recently, amazing claims have been made about robots. One of them is that people will start to fall in love with robots. Another is that Artificial...

In 1957, the social psychologist Leon Festinger coined the term “cognitive dissonance” to describe the stress that results from holding two or more...

If you’ve heard about human trafficking recently, chances are it’s been in connection with the Super Bowl. Simply Google “human trafficking and the...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported late last year that Americans aren’t having enough babies to replace themselves. In fact, a...

Stories about innocent suffering make the news daily.

Believing that the impossible becomes possible by congressional mandate is the essence of what Jacques Ellul called “the political illusion.” That...

Churches have often served as the moral compass for the nation—to confront, challenge, encourage and exhort. And this is precisely where I’d like...

Last autumn, a Chinese scientist named Dr. He ignited a rhetorical firestorm when he announced he’d used the technology CRISPR to genetically alter...

Millennials have a pretty bad reputation these days. Some of it’s undeserved, of course, but there are also plenty of stories of perpetual...

In the whole run-up surrounding the push for same-sex marriage and LGBT “rights,” some predicted that the normalization of homosexuality would open...

The settlers and the founders of this country spoke a lot about their posterity – the generations that would follow them. For example, the...

The world as we know it is made up of a lot of things, not least of which are ideas. You hear us talk about ideas all the time on BreakPoint,...

Officials in six states, including populous ones such as Virginia and Florida, are considering bills permitting the study of the Bible in...

Officially, the Netherlands is a safer country to live in than the United States. Its gun homicide rate is about 4 percent that of the United...

Everyone needs to stop freaking out about Christian schools. Though they made headlines in the past few weeks thanks to Karen Pence, wife of Vice...